Rangers make MULTIPLE moves... Major Injury Updates | NYR News

The Rangers are currently in the middle of a three-game win streak, and if they want to continue that, they're going to have to do it with some call-ups. Sean Durzi is on the injured reserve with a hand injury, and Albert Schmitz, we just learned today, is now out week-to-week with an upper-body injury. In Seattle on Sunday, Albert Schmitz got injured, and Mike Sullivan had to dress six defensemen, so... Matt Robertson makes his season debut. And of course, it's not just the defense that is banged up right now. Of course, Igor Shesterkin is out for the year. James Reimer has been let go. And Dylan Garand is back in net tonight. And the Rangers have made multiple roster moves going into a huge game against Edmonton tonight. The same team that just beat you 4-1 on home ice last week. But before we jump into all the updates and everything you need to know ahead of tonight's game, a quick reminder to hit that subscribe button. I'm going to continue to bring you guys daily updates on everything that's happening with the New York Rangers here on the channel. And we just reached over 12,000 subscribers and I am giving away a jersey to one lucky subscriber here on the channel for whatever comes first, either the Rangers. Make the playoffs or we hit 15,000 subscribers. Thank you for all the support here on the channel, guys. And let's get into the updates. Now, Sean Durzi has not played since October 26. Now, it's been a while. It's hard to believe already. But this morning at Edmonton, he was on the ice for morning skate, which is an encouraging development. But he is still wearing a non-contact jersey. So he's back skating, which is good news. But he is not cleared for contact, which isn't the greatest news. And the Rangers put him on the injured reserve retroactive Thank That last game that he played on October 26th against the Kings. He has played 14 of the Rangers 18 games this season, averaging roughly 20 minutes a night and has missed the last four games straight. And one thing that I mentioned earlier this season is that missing time is not necessarily something that is new for him. you. He's dealt with injuries the last couple of seasons and last season he played 60 of Utah's 82 games. So he missed 22 last year and a few the year before that. He has been a big part of the success so far this season in 14 games played. He's had two goals and five points, but he does have a minus one rating and he joins a long list of Rangers that have been injured this season, including Adam Sikora, who's out long-term Joe Veleno, who's out long-term on IR and both of them with lower body injuries. Now, Albert Schmitz is a whole different situation. He has played every single game for the Rangers this season, except for the last one. He went 17 for 17. And then on Saturday in Seattle, was his first game missed of the season with an upper body injury. The Rangers now say he is week to week, which is not encouraging. And despite having zero points on the season in 17 games and a minus two rating and a rookie season, he's looked really good. He's played roughly 14 to 15 minutes a night, about five minutes less than Derzey himself, but he's playing on the third pairing and he's looked quite good still this season. Despite playing with Braden Schneider and despite all these injuries, the Rangers have found a way to be pretty good without Sean Durzi with Durzi. The Rangers are seven, six and one and gave up three goals a game without him. They're actually now three and one giving up two and a half goals a game. Now, granted, these are against teams that. are lesser than the rangers and it's only a four-game sample size it doesn't prove that they're better with Sean Durzi or anything like that but some of the guys are stepping up their play and they're now back in the win column and feeling good about themselves that's something to build on when you can galvanize around injuries from october 15th to the 26th the rangers won one of six games and allowed 28 goals including seven to new jersey seven to ottawa and six to So defense has been a problem for a little bit. We've talked about it on the channel and obviously now they're dealing with injuries, but nice to see some of the guys step up and obviously they made another roster move, which I'll get to in a second, but. The defense is not the only thing that has changed this week. Igor Shesterkin, of course, on long-term injured reserve, doesn't seem like he's coming back this season. And Reimer is now gone. They terminated his contract, and he only had one start where he gave up three goals on eight shots and was pulled. That leaves, of course, Dylan Grann and Jonas Korpisalo, who looked good last game, but Dylan Grann gets to start tonight in Edmonton. And Korpisalo, who made 25 saves on 28 shots, is, of course, with the team still, and I imagine will probably get the next game. And Korpisalo has been good enough so far this season in the one game that he's played 25 saves on 28 shots, an 8-9-3 save percentage, which is still above league average, and he was good enough. To win a one goal game. Dylan Grann is 6-6-1 this season. With a .906 save percentage. And a 2.52 goals against average. And Sullivan said that he's done a real good job in goal. And kind of just taken the lead. His last start was last Thursday against Philadelphia. 3-2 win where he played the entire game. He looked good and was solid. On the other side of things with Jonas Korpisalo. The Rangers were up 4-0 going into the third period. On Saturday, and only won 4-3, the Kraken scored three times in the third period, and Mike Sullivan said that they gave up a goal early in the period, it gave Seattle life, and then they took a power play goal, and they made it a hockey game from there. He also said that they wanted to put Korpisalo in a position to succeed, believes that they did that on Saturday, and despite everything, he comes out with the win, and they're going to need him to be good, he was solid, he was just adequate, he was fine, they're going to need him to be that moving forward. And tonight is a great revenge game for Dylan Grant. The last time he played the Edmonton Oilers again was last week. He gave up three goals on 23 shots and a 4-1 loss. So he knows what to expect tonight. And he wants to bounce back in a big way. So the goalies look a little bit steadier right now than they did in October and heading into the rest of November and December. It's looking pretty solid. But now who is standing in front of them? You're dealing with injuries. You made a couple of call ups. Let's get into that. So a big name that they called up and one that we've been talking about since the preseason because he made such a great impression is Mark DelGazzo. He has been recalled from the Hartford Wolfpack for this trip. The Rangers originally signed him to a two-year contract on July 1st of this year and last season in Laval he had nine goals and 27 points in 63 games. In 46 games with Nashville in 2024-25 he averaged 16 minutes a night almost 17 minutes a night and he's been a regular NHL defenseman before in that position. Now he hasn't played an NHL game this season in 55 career games with Nashville he has two goals and 12 points and at Hartford this year he has two goals and 11 points He's been really good. And it was reported that he and Matt Rempe were out late this morning at Morning Skate, which means they will be both out of the lineup. So Matt Rempe comes out of the lineup. Delgado is just traveling with the team as an extra because of the injury troubles they're having on the back end. So they will be the healthy scratches tonight. There was an optional skate this morning because the team has been playing so well in Edmonton. 16 names on the list. And of course, that includes Sean Durzi, not cleared for contact, but he was there. Delgado was there. Scott Morrow, Matt Robertson. Matt Rempe, you got Luke Glendening, who's coming back into the lineup, and all those guys were on the ice. So the Rangers called up a defenseman who's going to sit tonight, which bears the question, who's actually getting into the lineup for this game? Well, It's the same six that got in against Seattle. And those six were Adam Fox, of course, with Gavrikov. You have Pettersson and Schneider together. And of course, Scott Morrow should probably never leave this lineup again. And Matthew Robertson. Fox, Gavrikov, and Pettersson have been carrying big loads for this team this season. Fox plays almost 23 minutes a night. Gavrikov at 22 and Pettersson at 20, while the rest of the guys are pretty much split. And Adam Fox has been brilliant so far this season. I cannot believe the discourse that was happening in the summer about him being washed and maybe you should trade him. I can't believe that side of the fan base. And Fox has 22 points this season. 20 of them are assists, the most on the team. And with this call up to the Rangers, of course, the Hartford Wolfpack had to restock their cupboards a little bit. So Anthony Kerher and Cooper Moore were on loan to Worcester. So the farm team. is restocking its own blue line a little bit here because of course so many injuries to the blue and like I just mentioned a few minutes ago looks like Luke Glendening will be coming back into the lineup tonight. I guess they're just playing around with things. I wonder if he's playing fourth line center where that leaves Noah Laba what they want to do with some of the lines again it was an optional practice so he's played three games this season and his last one was November 1st. And he only played seven minutes and 33 seconds. Matt Rempe is sitting tonight. He has played five games. He has zero points. He averages seven minutes a night. So he's going to sit. Glenn Denning is going to get another shot here. And Matt Rempe. Just has not offered much this season, of course, had the one fight, but, you know, it's just a fourth line swap at this point. Now, these are some minor changes around the edges. Of course, Schmitz being out is a big thing. Of course, Sean Durzi being out is a big thing, but some of the other shuffles and moves that they make wouldn't really affect it big time heading into the game. But when you're looking at this game, this is a big one in the Eastern Conference standings. The Rangers are still third in the Metro Division with 21 points. Five behind New Jersey and nine behind Carolina. Washington is in the rear view mirror right now with 18 points, but they've played only 15 games, three games in hand on the Rangers. The Islanders right behind them with 17 points in 16 games. So if the Capitals win just two of those games and make up some ground, the Rangers are in big trouble because the wildcard spots are going to belong to. Atlantic Division teams this year. It's just going to happen. Carolina and New Jersey are kind of running away with the division at this point. Probably will for the rest of the year. Carolina's 14-3-2 and New Jersey is 13-5-0. So the top two spots look as good as gone. The Rangers have been showing some encouraging signs and signs that they can maybe... Continue this and sneak into the playoffs. They've scored 55 goals and allowed 52 in those 18 games that they played. And Alexi Lafreniere leads the goal scoring department with nine goals on the season, while Fox, of course, leads with points with 22. And Zibanejad, pretty good start to the season for him as well with 15. After Edmonton tonight, you head to Calgary. Calgary's been playing pretty good. They're on fire, no pun intended. But then you are in Vancouver on Friday, and then you're back home on Monday for a meeting with the Montreal Canadiens. So the schedule really doesn't get much easier here. Those are very quick turnarounds in a week that is very, very busy for a team that is a little bit depleted on the blue line. As for tonight specifically, the Edmonton Oilers, they're on a roll this season. 12-3-3, first in the Pacific Division. Connor McDavid has. 47 points in 18 games. They have scored 75 goals in 18 games this season, which is four goals a game, and they've only allowed 55. They also have their own questions on the blue line as well, as Ryan Rashad reported today that Jake Walman will be a healthy scratch again for the fifth time in seven games. Other players to watch are, of course, Leon Draisaitl with 34 points this season. Evan Bouchard has 31, and he has the most by an Oilers defenseman right now. Their goalies aren't perfect, that's another thing to keep in mind, where we haven't at the time of recording got confirmation on who's starting, but Tristan Jari, not great with a 9.02 save percentage, smaller sample size, than Devin Levi, who has an 8.89 and has actually been really good for them. Now the Oilers are coming off of a loss to Anaheim on Thursday, and then they beat Vancouver on Saturday night 4-2, and the Rangers actually outshot them their last meeting last week, so... I don't know. I think it's tight to call. I feel like the Rangers can definitely win. And I think that there's a little bit of revenge brewing in this game from goaltender Dylan Grant. So can the kind of taped together blue line beat the Oilers? I think that this team can. Again, I think that they played them once. They were caught with their pants down a little bit. There was a lot going on with the goaltending situation. The defense was leaking in October. The goaltending's a little bit more steady now. There's less of a workload bestowed upon Dylan Garand. They've just won three straight. They're looking to make it four. They're feeling pretty good about themselves. You're not feeling good about that third period in Seattle, though. But a couple of things to watch over the next couple of days. Does Sean Durfy near a return? Does he shed that non-contact jersey? Albert Schmitz is out week to week. That does stink. And who gets to start next game? I think that's going to be something to keep an eye on. I'll keep you guys updated for everything that goes on with that here on the channel. But guys, let me know in the comments who wins tonight. Comment down below. Is it Dylan Garand or is it Connor McDavid? Who wins the battle this time? Is it the Oilers or the Rangers? Let me know who wins in the comments below. But thank you so much for watching. My name is Darius Dominguez. This is Rangers Digest. And I'll see you in the next video.